Archive for 10:30

The holiday period has started and we start to look for ideal places to go with the kids! What about sharing places when you go abroad with the children? We look forward to receive your suggestions as a comment!

What do you say of spending a morning harvesting vegetables, feeding the hens and discovering how the snails live in the greenhouse? We invite the family of one of our subscribers to become farmers for a morning together with Pep and the Sònia in their farm in Puigpelat this Saturday 27 or Sunday 28 of June. If you do your best, you’ll even be able to take some vegetables at home. When finishing you will be able to barbecue or picnic under some nice trees.

At the e-zine 29 we take you to the Alt Camp. In Puigpelat you will help Pep and Sonia to harvest the vegetables in the field, to feed the hens or move the snails in the greenhouse from one place to an other. In Farena you will discover the magic of nature. Walking along pines you will arrive to the Brugent River and the Toll de l’Olla, a spectacular natural pool where you will be able to have a swim with the children. And if the bath has opened your appetite, you will be able to have lunch or dinner in the Brugent restaurant at the same village.

If you want to welcome summer holidays with a lot of noise, you must go to Reus (Baix capm) and enjoy of Saint Peter’s Celebration. The thunderstorms are spectacular. And if you prefer to participate in a show, just approach the roman villa of the Munts in Altafulla (Tarragonès). There in Casius or Faustina will be your hosts. And if you prefer to stay at home, we offer you a website full of game proposals, a good tool to entrain your kids in the open air, at home, with friends or alone.

We hope you enjoy of a weekend full of family activities. And as usual, we remind you that using the advanced search of our website, you will find many more alternatives of family leisure!

Do you want to live a total experience in the nature and adventure park Deltarium at Deltebre? Climbing, Tibetan bridges, archery, canoeing and finishing. Afterwards a visit to the nature park to feed the pets. Just leave us a comment and participate. We will raffle 8 tickets (2 families) among the received comments made by subscribers before midnight of Thursday June 18. (Recommended age: from 5 years). The winners will be able to enjoy of the activity any weekend of June or july.

Hurry so you can be one of the 2 families that will put their skill on trial!

If you like cherries, you can taste the typical cherry cake during Miravet’s cherry festival on Sunday June 14. Above of receiving the cake from the Councillor of Tourism, you’ll be able to attend to a very particular contest: the one of launching cherry stones.

If you want to take the cherry cake home, leave us a comment in our blog. The first subscriber that leaves us a comment can go to Miravet to pick up its cake.

We are undergoing minor cuts in the network. Occasionally we disappear for a few minutes … and shortly after we return to be there. Our computer experts are working to fix the problem. With some patience we’ll be back 100%!

What do you think of taking a boa tat the Encanyissada Lake after planting rice?

We invite 1 family of a subscriber to recover the traditional way of moving through the Delta. Posting on a boat and putting pressure on the bottom of the water with a hook, you can enjoy of the birds and the landscape from a very different perspective.

Leave us a comment at the blog to participate with the draw. On Thursday, June 4, 2009 after 22:00 we will publish the name of the family who will go to rack any weekend in June or July (although if you go this weekend you will see the planting of rice!).

In the e-zine 26 we offer you some activities to relive the days of our ancestors. What do you think of plating rice in the traditional way as it was done in the Delta Ebro a lot of years ago? At the Encanyissada Lake you can accompany this Sunday some farmers into the field! And if you have ever wondered how to build dry stone banks, now you have the opportunity to discover the secret. From the hand of the master ‘marger’ you will be able to rebuild a wall!

If you prefer to enjoy the beaches, we propose to follow the passage round the coast of Ametlla de Mar following the GR92, to enjoy a breathtaking Mediterranean coastal landscape. And for the little ones we have two entertaining puppet shows at the Litterarium Fair in Mora d’Ebre.

If you prefer to stay home and cook with the children, we present you a website with recipes and cooking videos for kids.